Category Archives: Chinese

Chinese Text Project: A Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature

Posted on September 8, 2016 by dsturgeon

Paper presented at Digital Humanities Congress 2016, University of Sheffield Since its creation in 2005 as an online search tool for a handful of classical Chinese texts, the Chinese Text Project has gradually grown to become the largest and most … Continue reading →

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Leveraging Corpus Knowledge for Historical Chinese OCR

Posted on July 8, 2016 by dsturgeon

Paper to be presented at “Digital Research in East Asian Studies: Corpora, Methods, and Challenges“, Leiden University, July 10 2016 Abstract As an increasingly large amount of pre-modern Chinese writing is transcribed into digital form, the resulting digitized corpus comes … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing, APIs, and a Digital Library of Chinese

Posted on June 8, 2016 by dsturgeon

Guest post published on Nottingham University’s China Policy Institute blog. Digital methods have revolutionized many aspects of the study of pre-modern Chinese literature, from the simple but transformative ability to perform full-text searches and automated concordancing, through to the application … Continue reading →

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Classical Chinese Digital Humanities

Posted on April 21, 2016 by dsturgeon

Introducing the first in a series of online tutorials covering basic digital humanities techniques using the Python programming language and the Chinese Text Project API. These tutorials are based in part on material covered in the course CHNSHIS 202: Digital … Continue reading →

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Text, Data, and Digital Humanities: APIs and the Chinese Text Project

Posted on April 20, 2016 by dsturgeon

Yale University, 22 April 2016 As databases, digital libraries, and digital tools grow in size and scope, they present increasingly valuable opportunities for research using novel methods including text mining, distant reading and other techniques that can be grouped under … Continue reading →

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Automated Identification of Parallels and Allusions in Classical Chinese Texts

Posted on February 19, 2016 by dsturgeon

Paper presented at AAS 2016, Seattle, April 1, 2016 The classical Chinese corpus has long been recognized to contain a vast amount of text reuse: closely related textual content that, for a variety of reasons, occurs in multiple works that … Continue reading →

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CHNSHIS 202: Digital Methods for Chinese Studies

Posted on January 22, 2016 by dsturgeon

I currently (Spring 2016 and 2017; Fall 2017) teach the course CHNSHIS 202: Digital Methods for Chinese Studies at Harvard’s EALC. Below is the syllabus from the 2016 course. Course Description This course introduces graduate students in Chinese studies to … Continue reading →

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Automation and Collaboration: Exploiting the Digital Medium

Posted on November 12, 2015 by dsturgeon

6th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, 30 November 2015, National Taiwan University New Perspectives on Digital Sinology Resources panel The digital medium presents unique opportunities and challenges for the development of new kinds of resources for the … Continue reading →

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Towards a Scalable Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese: From Static Database to Evolving Platform

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

Presentation at Harvard University, “Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Innovations and Challenges” Workshop, 7 November 2015 Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS, 9.00 am In the ten years since first going online, the Chinese Text Project has gradually expanded from … Continue reading →

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Textual Relationships in the Pre-Qin and Han Corpus: A Digital Approach

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dsturgeon

Seminar at Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, 26 October 2015 Room S153, CGIS South Building, 12.00 Textual parallels among early Chinese transmitted texts are extensive and widespread, often reflecting complex textual histories involving repeated transcription, compilation, and editing … Continue reading →

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